This tool reviews the rationale and purpose for understanding the employment dynamics of local economies and describes a proven methodology for carrying out a labor market assessment by youth serving organizations to design and implement employability programs in their own unique contexts.
This toolkit presents a series of dimensions, standards and indicators of quality that enable entities that provide career guidance, training and job placement services to review their processes, assess their services and develop improvement plans that take into account identified constraints and the proposed objectives.
This toolkit provides a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. A PYD approach to evaluation measures whether youth are positively engaged in and benefiting from investments and ultimately develop positive ways so that they can contribute to the development of their communities.
This self-assessment tool is designed to help educators reflect on the extent to which they are already embedding employability skills into instruction and the opportunities for further embedding these skills.
The toolkit provides an analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship, and guidance on appropriate interventions in a context in the form of a summary output sheet for 18 context scenarios. The guide will point to those interventions which are likely to have the biggest impact in that context.
This toolkit from USAID examines youth participation in violent conflict and draws out lessons for development programming. It asserts that although a large proportion of young people is not necessarily destabilizing, those who are uprooted, intolerant, jobless and have few opportunities could represent a ready pool of recruits for ethnic, religious and political extremists.
This toolkit provides helpful steps and resources to start and register an apprenticeship program, from exploring the apprenticeship model as a workforce strategy to launching a new program.
This framework offers guidance on how programs can systematically identify and challenge gender-based inequalities. Integrating gender considerations into the planning, design, implementation and measurement and promoting utilization of gender-related findings and evidence-based practices can maximize contributions to development goals, including gender equality.
The toolkit includes step-by-step modules to carry out a youth well being diagnosis and includes practical examples of common youth policies and programmes in areas of education, employment and skills, health and civic participation.
This toolkit helps identify jobs in a value chain and the extent and nature of relationships among actors.The approach involves value chain mapping and firm-level surveys which quantify employment potential and identify possible constraints to business operations and growth.
